Milk-bottle container



Oct. 3o, 1923.

J. V. PORTER MILK BOTTLE CONTAINER Filed March 9, 1923 Patented Oct. 30, 1923.

JAMES V. PORTER, OF CGNNEKAT,

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WATSON", GF CONNEAT, OHIO.

MILK-BOTTLE CONTAINER.

Application filed March 9, 1923.

To all wir om it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES V. PORTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gonneaut, in the county of Ashtabula and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Milk-Bottle Containers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to boxes for receiving milk bottles, and the object thereof is to provide a box which will lock itself when the lid is closed after a bottle of milk is placed therein. To accomplish this object I provide a box with a hinged cover which will fall shut when released by the hand, and a vertically movable hook with mechanism, adapted to be actuated by the weight of a bottle placed in the box, so that itwill be engaged by a latch hook on the box cover, but which hook will not co-engage when there is no bottle in the box; These and other features of my invention will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out, and are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l is a front elevation of my improved bottle receiving box, with a portion of the front wall thereof broken away.

Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same on the line 2-2 in Fig. l.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectionl on the line 2-2 in Fig. l showin the position of the locking mechanism w en the box is empty.

In these drawings A indicates the front wall of a box, which may be secured on the side of a house or other suitable support. i indicates the back, A2 and A3 side walls. Ai indicates a. false bottom, A5, indicates the bottom, which is spaced from the false bottom A4 and B indicates a cover which is hinged to the back A by means of hinges b. The front portion Z2', of the cover B is prefabl concaved as shown in the drawings, the enc walls of the box being curved to fit said concaved cover, so that when the cover B is raised to a vertical position, the front edge thereof will be forward of the hinges Z) so that it will fall shut, by reason of its own Serial No. 623,996.

weight, when the cover is released by hand.

The interior of the box is preferably divided into compartments by means of a division wall a. While I have shown only two compartments it will be obvious that the box can be made with as niany compartments as is desired wit-hout departing from the scope of my invention.

YWithin one of the compartments I place a vertically movable latch hook C which is secured upon a rod C slidably mounted in a bracket c secured on the inner side of the front- A of the box, and extends downwardly through the false bottom A4 of the box. In the space between the false bottom A* and the bottom A5 of the box are levers D which are pivoted to brackets (l secured to the under side of the false bottom A4, said levers l) having one end of each pivoted to the lower end of the rod C. Pivoted to the op* posit@J end of each lever D is a post E, which extends upwardly through the false bottom A4 into each compartment, so that said posts will be engaged by a. bottle F placed therein. The weight of which will operate said levers I) to move the rod C and latch hook C to its uppermost position as shown in Figs. l and 2. Upon the under side of the cover B I secure a lock-hook G which is provided with a counter-weight arm g which will cause the lock-hook G to move forward to engage the latch-hook C when the cover B drops down to close the box. The latch-hook C is rovided with a. stud-post g by means of w ich the latch-hook G may be disengaged from the lock-hook. 0n the outside of the front wall A of the box I secure a bracket II in which is slidably mounted a locking slide, said slide and bracket being provided with openings which coincide when the slide J is in its outermost po sition as shown in Fig. 2, said coinciding openings being adapted to receive the loop 0f a padlock, see Fig. 2. The slide J is pro vided with an arm J see Figs. l and 3, which extends into the box and is adapted to engage the stud-post g on the latch hook G.

In operation, the box being empty, the latch-hook will be in the position shown in Fig. 3, so that the locking-hook will not engage it when the cover B is closed. The slide l is locked in its outermost position as shown in Fig. 2, so that the locking hook G will not be engaged when the cover is closed. The cover B is raised, and a bottle of milk (ill ' the cover B can be raised.

is placed in the box, which pushes the post lt downward, vthereby operating al lever` D to move the latch hook C upward to the position shown in Fig. 2. rEhe cover B is allowed to close and the locking hook engages the latch hook which securelylocks the cover. Then it is desired to remove the bottle Fthe lock K is removed, and the slide J pushed inwardly, which disengages the lock-hook @from the latch-hook C so that The removal of the bottle F allows the latch hook C and C to move downwardly to the position shown in Fig. 3, so that when the cover B again drops down it will not be locked. The Vslide J is then pulled outward and the lock K re- Y placed, and the box is ready to receive another bottle.

Having thus fully shown anddescribed the construction and operation of my invention and mechanism suitable for embodying the same I do not desire to be limited to the exact mechanism shown and described as many Inodications can be `made therein without In an apparatus of the class, described, a

box, a cover therefor hingedthereon, a lower bottom therefor an inner bottom s aced abovethe lower bottoms@ as to form a cha-mV` ber between said bottoms,' a lever lpivoted betweenv said bottoms, a vertically slidable Y post pivoted to one end off said'lever and extending upwardly through said inner bottom, a guide bracket secured to the' inner face ci' the front wall or" said box, a vertically slidable rod pivoted tosaid lever and extending upwardly through .said inner bottom, and through said guide bracket, a latchhook on the upper end of said rod, a vertically 'swinging latch-hook adapted to coi-act with the latch-hook on said rod pivoted on said hingedv cover, andlrneans to yieldingly maintain said pivoted hook in a forward position. Y i i Y In testimony whereoil l aiiiX my signature.

f YJAMES V. PORTER. 

